Suzanne Livingston has worked at IBM for 19 years, most recently in the role of vice president overseeing product management for the IBM watsonx Orchestrate AI agent platform. She says enterprises must strike between AI governance and trying to force every workload into one platform – or to be agentic at all. Going forward, managing AI agents will require new kinds of human-to-AI and human-to-human collaboration, according to Livingston, that the industry is just learning about.

Featuring: Suzanne Livingston, Vice President, IBM watsonx Orchestrate

In today’s episode, we’ll cover…

• Watsonx Orchestrate support for third-party AI agents
• Unsolved AI security problems
• How IBM customers are approaching AI governance
• AI's influence on the future of work

and more!

References:

• AI security worries stall enterprise production deployments
• DevSecOps AI agents add platform context, woo enterprises
• AI Agent Frameworks: A Guide to Evaluating Agentic Platforms

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Renowned public speaker, industry commentator, technologist and open source ambassador Kelsey Hightower describes himself as an AI skeptic, but warns that platform engineers should take the threat of AI to their jobs seriously. In this episode, he explains the skills IT operations leaders must emphasize as they prepare for the question: "What value do you bring over the machines?"

Featuring: Kelsey Hightower, technologist, speaker and open source ambassador

In today’s episode, we’ll cover…

• AI's "Bridge building problem"
• Why AI is a surface-level technology
• A coming salary correction for some IT pros
• "Training your replacement" vs understanding systems

and more!

References:

• DevSecOps AI agents add platform context, woo enterprises
• Cloud-native platform engineering in the enterprise
• Kubernetes AI progress in 2025 and the road ahead
• GitHub Universe: Large IT orgs share AI automation gains

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Last year in AWS with Corey Quinn

To paraphrase David Letterman, this next guest needs no introduction, at least for many people in the cloud computing world: Corey Quinn is the Chief Cloud Economist at Duckbill, where he specializes in helping companies improve their AWS bills "by making them smaller and less horrifying," according to his website bio. He also hosts the "Screaming in the Cloud" and "AWS Morning Brief" podcasts and curates the weekly newsletter "Last Week in AWS." In this episode, he shares his thoughts on the biggest and most overlooked AWS stories in 2025 and his outlook for 2026.

Featuring: Corey Quinn, Chief Cloud Economist, Duckbill

In today’s episode, we’ll cover…

• The ways AWS "got its mojo back" in 2025
• Ongoing security issues with AWS CodeBuild
• Amazon Bedrock vs "overconfident and also wrong bots" in customer service
• Why IT buyers should beware the "AI tool"

and more!

References:

• Critical flaw in AWS Console risked compromise of build environment
• AWS AI IDE, AgentCore throw down gauntlets for Microsoft
• AWS CloudOps hones multi-cloud support for AI, resilience
• What Amazon Q prompt injection reveals about AI security

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